The "How to practice in yo room" thread

[Metal Reeper]

We have all been there, bored, wanting to practice but don't know what to do. I also see threads about this all the time so I'm hoping to make a big list of things to practice.

Put a lvl 1 Boswer on 9 handicap on .5 damage ratio. Work on doing things like shine>Aerial>L cancel>shine. Once you get comfortable with this then you can start doing aerials late. This will teach you the fundamentals of shield pressure. Add some shinegrabs in there too, they are cool.

(I might be wrong on this one)
One way to learn how to wall tech is to go into falco's target test and hit the damage zones and wall tech them. I heard that this doesn't work because the timing is different than regular teching. Can someone clear that up for me?

Another way to practice wall teching is to put on motion sensors, throw them at a ledge and upB into them. Hold your C-stick towards the wall and your control stick up (If you want to wall-jump tech)

I think AustinRC said this one way back.
To practice dash dancing put on starmen and practice dashing under them and trying not to let the star touch you. Try and mix in wavedashes,crouches, moonwalks, all that good stuff.

Play lvl 1's practice chaingrabbing them and 0 to deathing them. Don't just kill the CPU though practice on mixing things up and adding wavelands and pivots and things into your comboes. I believe lvl 1's are the best to practice on. I hear that lvl 5's and others are also good. Someone tell me what they think about that.

I hope that we can get some good ideas in this thread. most of this stuff may not be to helpful for higher level players but I would like to see ideas for all skill levels if possible.

 

[Ryucloud]

I hear Lv3 is the new thing because of their di but i dont think it really matters as long as you know what your doing but my question is how to practice and improve spacing and maybe even reaction time?

 

[cheeseball341]

For falco shield pressure.

lvl 4 falcon, .5 damage, him with a 9 handicap and you with 1.

If he can jump/nair out of your shield pressure you are too slow.

 

[-ShadowPhoenix-]

I play alone with the lights off

 

[Jonas]

I got bored so I put on Metroid Prime 2 instead

it's amazing

 

[Zodiac]

I just about never practice by myself, My muscle memory pretty much takes care of itself at this point. tech skill almost never gets rusty.

 

[choknater]

I play alone with the lights off

hahaha. all the stuff in the OP is great, but i feel like the power of melee practice is greatly amplified with the lights off

Spoiler

at 2 a.m. when mom is sleeping

I just about never practice by myself, My muscle memory pretty much takes care of itself at this point. tech skill almost never gets rusty.

mine doesn't either, but i feel that my creativity is severely inhibited unless i practice and try new things by myself.

 

[DerfMidWest]

I like to do the 1 player on stage glitch thing and just run around and try to do stuff. that made me better at running around and doing stuff.

 

[FerrishTheFish]

I use the motion-sensor bombs to practice wall-teching.

I also use lvl. 7 Ganondorf to practice spacing.

 

[VGmasta]

These are all pretty good ideas guys. Thanks for the input.

I like to do the 1 player on stage glitch thing and just run around and try to do stuff. that made me better at running around and doing stuff.

^This one. I use Camera Mode to do the one player on stage glitch to practice moving around on different stages. This is really useful in getting yourself prepare for counterpicks.

 

[Massive]

I load up melee on dolphin and run my script-bot to practice a move/tactic repeatedly.

I haven't done it in a while though, mostly because it's more fun to play against actual people and DARK SOULS came out.

 

[Sinji]

We have all been there, bored, wanting to practice but don't know what to do. I also see threads about this all the time so I'm hoping to make a big list of things to practice.

Put a lvl 1 Boswer on 9 handicap on .5 damage ratio. Work on doing things like shine>Aerial>L cancel>shine. Once you get comfortable with this then you can start doing aerials late. This will teach you the fundamentals of shield pressure. Add some shinegrabs in there too, they are cool.

(I might be wrong on this one)
One way to learn how to wall tech is to go into falco's target test and hit the damage zones and wall tech them. I heard that this doesn't work because the timing is different than regular teching. Can someone clear that up for me?

Another way to practice wall teching is to put on motion sensors, throw them at a ledge and upB into them. Hold your C-stick towards the wall and your control stick up (If you want to wall-jump tech)

I think AustinRC said this one way back.
To practice dash dancing put on starmen and practice dashing under them and trying not to let the star touch you. Try and mix in wavedashes,crouches, moonwalks, all that good stuff.

Play lvl 1's practice chaingrabbing them and 0 to deathing them. Don't just kill the CPU though practice on mixing things up and adding wavelands and pivots and things into your comboes. I believe lvl 1's are the best to practice on. I hear that lvl 5's and others are also good. Someone tell me what they think about that.

I hope that we can get some good ideas in this thread. most of this stuff may not be to helpful for higher level players but I would like to see ideas for all skill levels if possible.

Great read. Ive been trying to find a way how to practice shield pressure.

 

[Grim Tuesday]

I load up melee on dolphin and run my script-bot to practice a move/tactic repeatedly.

Explain how to do this please.

 

[-ACE-]

Just do what you can as far as practicing vs cpu's and practice your tech skill. Theoretically, I'd say your goal should be to be in total control of your character, with the ability to move very fluidly and execute near frame perfect aerials/platform drops/oos options/etc. when necessary. You can't do many things by yourself (there is no substitute for human competition) but tech skill is definitely one of them, and there's always room for improvement.

 

[S l o X]

Run around stages doing wavelands and ****. It helps.

 

[Sinji]

Run around stages doing wavelands and ****. It helps.

Oh ok I get what your saying

 

[choknater]

i also have a proper mindset when playing against cpu's. i tell myself to learn, develop technical consistency, and discover new technology, whether from myself or from some anomalous amazing decision/tactic that the cpu executed.

 

[crush]

Use action replay infinite shield code to practice shield pressure. You'll be the next best Yoshi in no time.

 

[Metal Reeper]

I need to get an AR lol....

Does anyone know a 100% way to get a CPU to hit your shield the same way every time? If so I could practice shines OoS and tons of things. I've always wondered.

Make sure when you do your movement on platforms that you are ALWAYS fast falling after the wavelands.
I wanna get better at double shines. Should I make the games speed slower by training mode?

 

[Grim Tuesday]

Learning double shines on a slower speed will just screw with your timing when you try and learn it in practice.

I learnt to double shine by just shining as fast as I could after every shine, now I can do them seamlessly :/

 

[Avalancer]

I play a few battles against whatever characters people play a lot at tourneys (Fox, Peach, Shiek, etc.), handicap 9 and level 9.
After about 3 battles I usually get bored and call some melee-friends

 

[Sinji]

Practice in a quit dark room

 

[Mew2King]

just **** level 4s or level 1s for a really long time, doing whatever you want, and you'll learn the game good. Best to practice against computer fox or falco since they are the most common to combo and fight in tournaments

but it's even better to just go to tournaments honestly

 

[Metal Reeper]

Well obviously it's better to go to tournaments....

This thread just got Mew2King'ed :/

 

[KirbyKaze]

Something really useful to know how to do as a Fox player is proper timing out of your up throw (especially useful on Puff) but nobody seems to want to practice it.

You just push Jigglypuff to the edge in training mode, do a dash grab right at the edge of the stage so you're dangling her over the edge, and then u-throw. Under these conditions, she will usually DI behind you and you can practice getting the u-throw > uair at any percent it works at. With the c-stick in 1P mode hack, it's even available to a lot of c-stick purists.

She doesn't always DI behind, though, so if she's not then just roll to the edge, b-throw her off, and grab her as she's coming up. That usually fixes it for some reason; I'm not sure why the CPU Puff behaves this way.

This works on most characters. Sheik, Marth, etc. Good for learning how to dash backwards out of his throw immediately, which in turn is good for getting important combo starters down.






I could probably provide a billion little practice routines I used to do to learn specific things but honestly none of them would really help anyone in this topic get better.

 

[Metal Reeper]

I appreciate KK.

I'm pretty sure you're the one that said it. About how when you Uthrow with Fox you want to jump as he puts his arms down. Pretty sure that was it.

 

[FrootLoop]

I got bored so I put on Metroid Prime 2 instead

it's amazing

this
prime 2 is so good

 

[Sinji]

your room should be properly installed with an A.C.